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Aug 13, 2023 Microsoft Corporation
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Brochure promoting the Microsoft Logo programming language for the Macintosh. It included a demo desk.
Topics: Microsoft, Logo, Macintosh, Mac
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Aug 13, 2023 Micro Diversions, Inc
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Brochure for Micro Diversion's Wordsmith text editor. This was a text editor produced to work with the MicroAngelo display board in an S-100 computer.
Topics: micro diversions, S-100, CP/M, text editor
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Aug 12, 2023 Vintage Computer Festival
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Program for the 2023 Vintage Computer Festival West, held August 4-5 2023 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA
Topics: VCF, computer history, vintage computure
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Aug 12, 2023 Gordon Romney
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In 1968, Gordon Romney created the first computer-rendered shaded images of solid 3D objects. Looking for data to render, he created an alphabet of 3D block letters. The raw data for these models (carefully laid out on graph paper) were included in his PhD thesis. The thesis is stuck behind a paywall (infuriating, since his research was paid for by US tax dollars!), however I did scan in the block letter data. The full thesis is also available for borrowing on the Internet Archive.
Topics: 3D, University of Utah, CGI, 3D model
Software Library: Macintosh
Apr 6, 2022 John Peterson
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Wallpaper for the Mind  2.0 This is a classic Mac application implementing "Wallpaper for the mind", a semi-chaotic pattern generator. Based on an algorithm published in the September 1986 Scientific American Mathematical Recreations column. The implementation allows you to vary the three variables (A, B, C) controlling the pattern, as well as scale and position of the results.  The original 68K version uses special assembly code to optimize the square root and point plotting...
Topics: Wallpaper, chaotic pattern, Macintosh software
Software Library: Macintosh
Apr 4, 2022 John Peterson
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Macintosh Pico is a version of the image processing language designed by Gerard Holzmann and described in his 1988 book "Beyond Photography - The Digital Darkroom". This version runs on the 68K Mac with color Quickdraw. It compiles the Pico expressions on-the-fly into 68020 machine code. The folder includes some sample images and demonstration expression files. Check out the "Read Me!" file to get started.  Note the Enter or  ⌘ -E keys may not be accessible via...
Topics: Pico, Macintosh, image processing, Gerard Holzmann
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Sep 15, 2021 Weller
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Spec sheet and trouble-shooting guide for the Weller WTCPN series soldering irons. The publication date is a guess; there's no date marked on the sheet, but it accompanied a unit purchased in the mid / late 1970s
Topics: Weller, Soldering iron, Soldering tools, WTCPN
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Jun 25, 2021 John Peterson, Wayne Patterson
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In late 1980, I was a freshman at Oregon State University. The Rubik's cube had hit the market in the fall, and every nerd in the dorm had one. One student, Wayne Patterson, became obsessed with it and (at serious expense to his other studies) managed to solve the puzzle. This was accomplished before any published solutions were readily available. Rather than risk losing this precious information, I recorded the solution, using the tools available to me at the time - Koh-I-noor technical pens,...
Topics: Rubik's cube, puzzle
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Jun 18, 2020 Ceneca Communications, Adobe Inc.
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In the mid 1990s, as the web was first taking off, a small company called Ceneca Communications produced one of the first authoring tools for HTML web pages with a WYSIWYG interface. This opened up creating web pages to people who did not want to code the pages directly. Initially, two products were offered: PageMill, a tool for creating web pages, and SiteMill, a tool for managing web sites. Shortly after their announcement, Ceneca was acquired by Adobe, and the products became part of the...
Topics: PageMill, SiteMill, Ceneca Communications, Adobe, Web
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Jun 7, 2020 Fleming Mitchell Associates
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Flyer promoting Aunt Fanny's Cabin, a large restaurant in Smyrna, Georgia
Topics: Aunt Fanny's Cabin, Restaurant
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Jun 7, 2020 US Bureau of Land Management
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This is a guide to the Westwater section of the Colorado River, produced by the US Bureau of Land Management. It gives a basic overview of the river for people intending to float down it.
Topics: Westwater, Colorado River, BLM, Rafting
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Jun 7, 2020 Alpha_1 project, University of Utah
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Alpha_1 was a research CAD system developed at the University of Utah Computer Science Department in the 1980s. This was a flyer promoting the work. It was later spun out to a start-up called Engineering Geometry Systems.
Topics: Alpha_1, University of Utah, CAD, B-Splines
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Mar 27, 2020 Apple, Inc.
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By 1984, Apple's brand was a big enough deal they started using it sell swag and random fashion accessories with their logo plastered on it.
Topics: Apple, Logo, Swag, Merch
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Feb 24, 2020 Cray Computer Corporation
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The Cray-3 supercomputer was the last complete system produced by Seymour Cray's Cray Computer corporation (work was started on a Cray-4, but Seymour died in a car accident, and the company folded shortly thereafter). This is the sales brochure for the computer. Only one machine was delivered (as a demonstration unit) to an outside customer.
Topics: Cray-3, Cray, Supercomputer
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Jan 22, 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated
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Instruction manual for your TI Anytime microelectronic digital watch.
Topics: TI, Texas Instruments, LED Watch
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Jan 22, 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated
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Catalog for Texas Instruments' LED Digital Watch line. Includes models TI-101 - TI-104. Also includes a flyer for the TI-401.
Topics: TI, Texas Instruments, LED Watch, TI-101, TI-401
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Jan 22, 2020 Quest Electronics
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Catalog for Quest Electronics. They sold various electronic parts (transistors, TTL ICs, etc.) as well as kits for digital watches, S-100 memory, a digital clock and an R/C model car.
Topics: Quest, S-100, Electronics, TTL, Digital Watch, R/C Car
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Jan 22, 2020 Jade Co Electronics Distribution
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Catalog for Jade Co Electronics Distribution. They sold individual parts (transistors, TTL ICs, etc.) as well as a video game kit.
Topics: Jade Co, Electronics, TTL
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Jan 22, 2020 Various
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This is a collection of advertisements for digital watches and calculators from the mid-1970s. Ads were clipped from newspapers, magazines and product flyers. Brands included Pulsar "Time Computer", Sharp, Lafayette, Texas Instruments TI-5050, JS&A, Solar-Chron, Quartzmatic (by Westclox), The Thinking Pen, Sinclair
Topics: Digital Watch, Calculator, Pulsar, Sharp, TI-5050, JS&A, Solar-Chron, Quartzmatic, Thinking Pen
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Jan 22, 2020 Alpha Electronics
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The LED-1 was a watch kit featured in hobby electronics magazines in the early-mid 1970s (1975?). The design was questionable, and I doubt it would have worked well even if constructed by a skilled technician. The project appeared in the March 1975 issue of Popular Electronics .
Topics: Digital Watch, LED Watch, Electronics, Wristwatch.
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Jan 18, 2020 MITS, Inc.
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A year after its introduction in 1975, MITS was trying to transform the Altair computer from a hobbyist to a serious business tool.
Topics: Altair, S-100, MITS, microcomputer, Altair 8800b
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Jan 18, 2020 MITS, Inc
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Just in time for "MITS-MAS", this catalog was selling various Altair computers (including the new 680) in time for Christmas. Apparently this also ran as an insert in Popular Electronics.
Topics: Altair, 8800, 680, S-100, Microcomputer, MITS, Christmas
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Jan 18, 2020 MITS, Inc.
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Product sheets for the Altair line of computer, including the new Altair 680, featured in the November 1975 issue of Popular Electronics . By this time, the original Altair 8800 was upgraded to the 8800a, and a new model, the 8800b was also introduced. Includes price list.
Topics: Altair, S-100, 8800a, 8800b, Altair 680, microcomputer
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Jan 18, 2020 MITS, Inc.
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The MITS Altair 8800, introduced in early 1975, was one of the first microcomputer systems to achieve widespread popularity. Featured on the cover of Popular Electronics in 1975 , it was actually able able to run useful applications. This is an early catalog for the Altair and its accessories. It also includes a price list, a flyer for the Comter 256 (a very simple data terminal modem), and an order form.
Topics: Altair, 8800, MITS, microcomputer, S-100
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Jan 17, 2020 Zilog, Inc.
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In addition to the Z-80 microprocessor, Zilog offered a complete line of circuit boards and accessories for building microcomputers, based on their own proprietary bus.
Topics: Zilog, Z-80, Z80, Z80-MCB
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Jan 17, 2020 Southwest Technical Products Corporation
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The SWTPC 6800 was one of the first alternative microcomputers to the S-100 based Altair 8800 and its clones. It was based on the Motorola 6800 microprocessor. This brochure for the computer includes a price list.
Topics: SWTPC, 6800, SS-50 bus
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Jan 17, 2020 Systems Research, Inc.
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Systems Research, Inc. was an obscure manufacturer of microcomputers in the mid-70s. This describes their SRI-500 computer system, based on the Fairchild F8 microprocessor. It's not clear if any of these systems were actually produced.
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Topics: SRI, Systems Research, microcomputer, 8080
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Jan 17, 2020 National Semiconductor Corporation
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By the late 1970s, competition was driving down in prices in the pocket calculator business. National Semiconductor tried to expand their market by re-purposing their calculators as games and math teaching aids. This is the game book for one such product, the QuizKid Racer.
Topics: Calculator, QuizKid, National Semiconductor, Game
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Jan 17, 2020 Zilog, Inc.
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Brochure describing the Zilog MCZ-1, a Z-80 based development system for professionals.
Topics: MCZ-1, Zilog, Z-80, Z80, microcomputer
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Jan 17, 2020 IMS Associates, Inc.
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Shortly after the Altair 8800 kicked off the microcomputer business, clones of the Altair started to appear. The IMSAI 8080 was one of the more popular clones, with a more robust design. This model was featured as a prop in the 1983 movie War Games. This is a brochure for the product, including a price list.
Topics: S-100, IMSAI, Altair, 8080, War Games
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Jan 17, 2020 Southwest Technical Products Corp.
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The Southwest Technical Products Corp. CT-1024 was one of the first video terminals available at an affordable price. It was based on the TV Typewriter II, published in the February 1975 issue of Radio Electronics magazine. (Note link goes outside of The Archive).
Topics: CT-1024, SWTPC, TV Typewriter, video terminal
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Jan 17, 2020 Apple Computer, Inc.
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This is the original brochure introducing the Apple II, "Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication. Introducing the Apple II, the personal computer." This scan includes the 1978 price list and dealer contact information. This is higher resolution than Jason Scott's copy of the brochure .
Topics: Apple II, Apple, personal computer
Computer Catalogs Collection
Jan 16, 2020 Polymorphic Systems
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Catalog for Polymorphic Systems, an early S-100 based computer vendor. I'm guessing this catalog is from 1976-1977.
Topics: S-100, Polymorphic Systems, Micro-Altair
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Jan 16, 2020 International Business Machines Corporation
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This glossy brochure covers the evolution of IBM computers, from the 1890s to the early 1970s. I scanned most of it as full tabloid pages, since the layout assumes a two-page spread.
Topics: IBM, Computer History
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Jan 16, 2020 Evans & Sutherland Corporation.
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This a brochure for the Evans & Sutherland Multi-Picture system, a top-of-the-line graphics display of the very late 1970s. These were calligraphic displays, where the CRT beam traced out the lines of the graphic, rather than the typical "raster scan" displays where pixels are scanned out top to bottom. Despite the "cost-effective" claim, these were quite expensive, with installations easily running to six figures in 1980 dollars.
Topics: Evans & Sutherland, E&S, Multi-picture System, calligraphic
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Jan 16, 2020 Cromemco Incorporated
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Cromemco was a major manufacturer of S-100 based computers from the mid 70s to the early 80s. This is their 1977 catalog (for which you're supposed to pay one dollar).
Topics: Cromemco, S-100, Z-2D
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Jan 15, 2020 Sunny International USA
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We take small wall warts supplying 80 watts for granted today, but back in the 1970s a power supply was a hefty affair. A giant transformer was accompanied with large smoothing caps nearly the size of pop cans. The whole thing weighed several pounds. This is the spec sheet / build instructions for the Sunny Kit 1 power supply, something you'd typically use to power an S-100 computer.
Topics: power supply, S-100, Sunny International
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Jan 15, 2020 S8iliconix Incorporated
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The Siliconix LD110/LD111 was a mid-70's chip set for creating a digital volt meter with a seven segment display.
Topics: LD110, LD111, Siliconix, DMM, volt meter
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Jan 15, 2020 BoLink Industries
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BoLink Industries was a manufacturer and distributor of radio-controlled model car parts and accessories in the late 1970s. This is a couple catalogs and associated price lists for their offerings. Back then R/C cars were usually gas powered, but electric versions were just becoming available.
Topics: BoLink, R/C Cars, model cars, radio-control
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Jan 11, 2020 Biotech Electronics
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This is the hardware manual for the Biotech Electronics CGS-808 graphics card. This was an S-100 card providing a video display based on the Motorola MC6847 display generator chip. An on-board 8085 CPU provided low-level graphics routines, and avoided using up the host computer's address space for display memory. This is the hardware manual with assembly instructions, theory of operation and schematics. Additionally, the schematics for a previous model, the CGS-800 are included. This was a...
Topics: S-100, CGS-808, CGS-800, Biotech Electronics, graphics card
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Jan 11, 2020 Biotech Electronics
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This is the software manual for the Biotech Electronics CGS-808 graphics board. This S-100 card provided a color bitmap display based on the Motorola MC6847 video generator chip.  The CGS-808 had an on-board 8085 CPU to handle low-level graphics routines.
Topics: S-100, CGS-808, Biotech Electronics, graphics card
Computer Newsletters: Unsorted Inbox
Jan 10, 2020 North Star Computers
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This is a newsletter for North Star Computers, a microcomputer company active in the late '70s. The newsletter lists various software products they produced, as well a complete list of third party software vendors and dealers.
Topics: North Star Computers, S-100, CP/M, microcomputer, software
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Jan 10, 2020 Processor Technology Corporation
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The nKRA was an S-100 memory board produced by Processor Technology. This is the installation guide for it.
Topics: S-100, Processor Technology, memory, RAM
Manuals: Various and Unsorted
Jan 10, 2020 Microcomputer Software Associates
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MSA Basic was a BASIC interpreter sold for various cassette based S-100 storage in the late 1970s. It looked an awful lot  like Microsoft BASIC. Was it a clean re-creation, or a re-marked copy?  Hard to tell. This is the reference manual for a BASIC created for Processor Technology Sol-20 systems (the "Solos and Cuter" refer to ROM versions available for that computer).
Topics: BASIC, MSA, Sol-20
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Jan 10, 2020 Lifeboat Associates
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CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) was a popular operating system for 8080/Z-80 based microcomputers in the late '70s - early '80s, before MS-DOS took over the world. These notes describe how to patch your CP/M system for your Processor Technology Helios disk drive. It's amusing to note the level of technical knowledge (e.g., patching assembly language code) expected. 
Topics: CP/M, S-100, Helios, Processor Technology
Computer Newsletters: Unsorted Inbox
Jan 8, 2020 John C. Dvorak Software Review
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John C. Dvorak is a well known commentator and columnist on the personal computer. In the industry's early days, he ran a newsletter that reviewed and sold software for CP/M and S-100 systems, often working closely with vendors like North Star . Dvorak is the nephew of keyboard inventor August Dvorak. This is a collection of his newsletters, spanning early 1979 to mid 1980.
Topics: software, CP/M, S-100, North Star computers
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Jan 7, 2020 Morrow Designs, Inc.
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Morrow Designs was a manufacture of "Thinker Toys" S-100 compatible memory, disk drives and other accessories. This is their catalog from 1980.
Topics: S-100, disk drive, CP/M, Thinker Toys
Manuals: Various and Unsorted
Jan 7, 2020 Static Memory Systems
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This is the user and assembly manual for the Static Memory Systems "The Last Memory" S-100 memory board kit.
Topics: S-100, memory board, RAM
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Sep 24, 2019 J. Leslie Peterson, Ellen Balls, Marjorie Smiley
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J. Leslie Peterson was a dairy farmer in Amalga, Utah (near Smithfield). He lived to be 100, and his life spanned most of the 20th century. This is a series of essays he wrote about his life and the history of where he lived. It was compiled by two of his daughters.
Topics: Utah, Amalga, Smithfield, history
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Aug 22, 2019 Expanded Entertainment, Mellow Manor Productions, ASIFA-SF
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In the 1980s and early 1990s, one of the few ways to see short independent animated films was to catch a packaged show of them at your local art-house movie theater. These were promoted with flyers left in the movie theater lobby. This collection of flyers runs from the late 1980s (from the Blue Mouse theater in Salt Lake City) to the mid 1990s in the Bay Area.  Presenters of the shows included Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation (Mellow Manor productions) and the International Tourn é e...
Topics: Animation, Festival of Animation, Spike & Mike, Expanded Entertainment, Tourney of Animation,...
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Aug 20, 2019 Oregon Software Corp.
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These are mailers sent out promoting Oregon Software's Pascal-2, a compiler for the PDP-11 and MK68000 processors.
Topics: Oregon Software, Pascal-2, PDP-11, 68000
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Aug 20, 2019 Arcosanti Foundation
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Flyer promoting "workshops" at the Arcosanti foundation, a building project founded by architect Paolo Soleri.
Topics: Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri, Cosanti Foundation, Arcology
Newsletters Miscellaneous and Unsorted Contributions
Aug 17, 2019 Tektronix Corp
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The January 1981 issue of an internal newsletter for Tektronix's engineering staff.
Topics: Tektronix, Technology
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Aug 17, 2019 National Semiconductor Corp
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Preliminary data sheet for National Semiconductor's WM 01 watch module. 
Topics: Digital watch, WM 01, National Semiconductor
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Aug 17, 2019 Intel Corp.
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Promotional newsletter from Intel's Microcomputer Division.
Topics: Microcomputer, Intel, Microprocessor, SBC 80/10
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Aug 14, 2019 Netronics Research and Development Ltd.
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Assembly instructions for the Netronics "JAWS" 64K S-100 Memory board.
Topics: Netronics, JAWS, 64K RAM, S-100
Miscellaneous Unsorted Computer Manuals
Aug 14, 2019 Seattle Computer Products
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This is a flyer and a manual for two (somewhat different) 16K S-100 RAM boards, made by Seattle Computer Products. SCP later became famous as the authors of Q-DOS, which was acquired by Microsoft and became the basis of MS-DOS.
Topics: S-100, 16K RAM, Seattle Computer Products
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Aug 14, 2019 QT Computer Systems
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Assembly instructions for the QT S-100 Motherboard kit. This was what you plugged S-100 boards into.  The scan is a bit murky because the original was printed on dark brown paper.
Topics: S-100, Motherboard
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Aug 14, 2019 Metron Computerware
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The "SOS" (Save old Sols) kit was a revised personality module allowing Sol-20 computers to have 60K of available RAM instead of the original limit of 48K. This was achieved by moving the "Personality module" (the boot ROM/Monitor) higher in the address space.
Topics: Sol-20, Metron Computerware, S-100
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Jul 25, 2019 Processor Technology
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This is two flyers for Processor Technology advertising their Extended BASIC language, and WordWizard "Electronic Typing System". This represents their effort to transition from the hobbyist market into the office. A price list for their Sol-20 line of computers and accessories is also included.
Topics: Processor Technology, Sol-20, Extended Basic, WordWizard
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Jul 25, 2019 Processor Technology Corporation
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Before they sold the Sol-20 microcomputer, Processor Technology sold add-on boards and software for S-100 computers.  This flyer is from the late '70s.
Topics: Processor Technology, S-100, microcomputer
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Jul 25, 2019 Tarbell Electronics
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Mailed flyer for Tarbell Electronics, an early software vendor for S-100 computer systems
Topics: Tarbell, S-100, microcomputers
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Jul 25, 2019 Circuit Cellar Magazine
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Throughout the 2000's, Circuit Cellar magazine partnered with a number of microprocessor vendors to conduct design contests. This is the Winner's announcement from the Renesas M16C Design Contest in 2005.
Topics: Renesas M16C, Design Contest, Circuit Cellar Magazine, Microcontroller
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Jul 24, 2019 Scion Corporation
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The Scion MicroAngelo was a video card for S-100 computer systems introduced in 1980. It provided a bitmap resolution of 512x480 (more than the Macintosh had at introduction). It worked around the limited address space of most S-100 computers by providing an on-board Z-80 to manipulate the bitmap. This includes various flyers, marketing brochures and price lists for the product.
Topics: MicroAngelo, Scion Corporation, S-100, Video display card
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Jul 24, 2019 Microsoft
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Before Microsoft was the giant corporation they're known as today, they were a little software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is one of their earlier software brochures, featuring Microsoft Basic and Fortran-80.
Topics: Microsoft, Basic, Microsoft Basic, Fortran-80
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Jul 23, 2019 International Paper Company
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In the early 1980s, the International Paper Company ran a series of ads with advice about how to communicate; how to read, write, create a resume, give a speech, etc. The hope was you'd buy some paper in the process. The ads feature famous personalities of the era. These were scanned from reprints of the ads.
Topics: International Paper, communication, advice
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Jul 10, 2019 Metheus Corp.
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Metheus  was a startup in Hillsboro, Oregon in the early 1980s. Their first products were graphics display devices for minicomputers (this was back when a frame-buffer display was a separate computer peripheral). This is a brochure for their Omega-400 Graphics display, associated software library, and custom chip designs. Metheus was acquired by Barco in 1999.
Topics: Metheus, Graphics Display, Omega 400
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Jul 9, 2019 Charles Csuri / ACM SIGGRAPH (organizer / presenter)
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This is the program handed out at the 1980 SIGGRAPH "Evening Film Program", featuring the latest computer animation of the year. The show was held in Seattle, July 16th 1980.
Topics: Computer Animation, SIGGRAPH
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Jun 27, 2019 Computer History Museum
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Thanks to its binge-purge hiring practices in the 80's and 90's, there were a lot of ex-Apple employees in Silicon Valley in the early 2000's. The Computer History Museum, along with Apple Lore, held a reunion event for Apple Employees at the CHM on September 13, 2003. This is the flyer/program for the event, including a list of attendees.
Topics: Apple, Computer History Museum, reunion
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Jun 27, 2019 Intel Corp.
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In the mid-70s, while the hobbyists were soldering together their Altair and Imsai computers, pros with deep pockets could buy systems directly from Intel. The SBC 80/10 was a complete "Single Board Computer", but Intel was happy to sell you more RAM and interface cards too. This brochure was pitching the products in 1975. It was cleverly cut to the exact scale of the actual PC board.
Topics: Intel, 8080, SBC 80/10, Microcomputer
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Jun 22, 2019 Wicat Systems
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Wicat Systems was a computer company founded in 1980 in Orem, Utah. At the time this brochure was produced (1983 - 1985?) they manufactured a 68000 based workstation computer with their own operating system. "Wicat" originally stood for the "World Institute of Computer-Assisted Teaching".
Topics: Wicat Systems, 68000 Computer, Wicat
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Jun 22, 2019 Council for a Livable World Education Fund
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This chart was produced in the mid 1980's, during Cold War. Nuclear war was a major topic of discussion. This chart was produced for a University of Utah seminar discussing the effects on Salt Lake City of a nuclear blast aimed at the state capitol building.
Topics: Salt Lake City, Nuclear Arms, Nuclear Blast
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Jun 22, 2019 Utah Portable Artificial Intelligence Support Systems Project, Computer Science Department, University of Utah
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Macintosh PSL (Portable Standard Lisp) was a Lisp interpreter produced for the Macintosh. It was one of the first interactive programming tools available for the Mac. The Lisp language was stripped down to fit into the 128K of RAM available on the Mac. The interpreter was based on the Portable Standard Lisp project done by the University of Utah Computer Science department. Memory was so short that the copying garbage collector actually used the video RAM as a temporary memory buffer - the...
Topics: Mac PSL, Portable Standard Lisp, Macintosh, Lisp, University of Utah
Anime and Manga Magazines
Jun 21, 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival
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Magazine produced for the 1988 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Topics: SFilm, SFIFF, San Francisco Film Festival, Foreign Film
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Jun 20, 2019 Penn & Teller
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This is the program for Penn & Teller's 1990 performance of The Refrigerator Tour  at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco.
Topics: Penn & Teller, Magic, Warfield Theater
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Jun 20, 2019 Blue Mouse Theater
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The Blue Mouse  was an art house / repertory movie theater in Salt Lake City. It showed a wide variety of films not available at the regular movie venues. It closed down sometime in the late 1980's.
Topics: Blue Mouse Theater, Salt Lake City, Art-house movies
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Jun 19, 2019 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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The Iris Universe was a user-oriented newsletter for customers of Silicon Graphics Iris line of computer workstations. This was the first issue, published in spring 1987.
Topics: SGI, Iris, Graphics Workstation, newsletter
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Jun 18, 2019 Expanded Entertainment
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This is a flyer The Computer Animation Show , a collection of computer animated films presented at the Blue Mouse movie theater in Salt Lake City, 1987
Topics: Computer Animation, Blue Mouse
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Jun 18, 2019 Mellow Manor Productions
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Spike & Mike presented collections of animated films as a travelling presentation. This flyer is from their 1997 show.
Topics: Spike & Mike, Animation, Film Festival
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Jun 18, 2019 George Coates Performance Works
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This is a program for the 1990 San Francisco performance of  The Architecture of Catastrophic Change , presented by George Coates Performance Works. Performed in a former cathedral with 60 foot high vaulted ceilings, the show featured elaborate staging, with projections covering the stage and ceiling.
Topics: George Coates, GCPW, Earthquake, performance art
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Jun 18, 2019 Apple Computer, Inc
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This is a poster (scanned in overlapping sections) outlining the standards for displaying Apple Computer's logo in the late 1980's.  The rainbow-style Apple logo was dropped when Steve Jobs returned a decade later.
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Topics: Apple, Logo, Graphic Design
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Jun 17, 2019 Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment
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Flyer promoting the film E.T.
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Jun 17, 2019 Walt Disney Productions
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Flyer promoting the movie TRON (original version)
Topics: TRON, movie flyer
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Jun 12, 2019 University of Utah, Computer Science Department.
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This is the handbook for students entering the University of Utah Computer Science Department in the 1980/81 academic year. Also included is the Peterson's Guides flyer for the department.
Topics: Computer Science, University of Utah
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Jun 12, 2019 Kennecott Minerals Company, Utah Copper Division
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In the early 1980's, I tried to visit the Bingham mine, but they were closed. Instead, all I got to see was this small brochure.
Topics: Bingham Mine, copper mine, Kennecott Minerals
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Jun 8, 2019 Another Language Performing Arts Company
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Program for the show As Our Thoughts Escape Us , performed by Another Language at the University of Utah, September 1986
Topics: Another Language, Performance Art, University of Utah
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Jun 8, 2019 Scion Corporation
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The MicroAngelo was a video card for S-100 computers introduced in the late '70s. It featured a 512x480 bitmap display and an on-board Z-80 for manipulating the bitmap. It was produced by Scion Corporation. This manual is for the 1.0 version, the Archive also has a slightly newer copy .
Topics: MicroAngelo, S-100, Video Card, Microcomputer, Scion Corporation, S-100, Video Card
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Jun 8, 2019 Canadian Information Processing Society
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Proceedings of the 1986 Graphics Interface / Vision Interface conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, 26-30 May 1986
Topics: Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Conference Proceedings
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Jun 8, 2019 Apple Computer
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In the early 1990s, Apple regularly published CD-ROMs with tools and examples for Mac application developers. For a while, these CDs featured covers with puns on movie titles. This is a selection covers from '92 to '94.
Topics: Developer CD-ROM, Apple, Macintosh
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Jun 8, 2019 University of Utah Computer Science Department.
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Three brochures promoting the University of Utah Computer Science Department.  The first is probably from 1981, the other two are from 1985 - 1987 (I don't have precise dates).
Topics: University of Utah, Computer Science, Graduate School
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Jun 8, 2019 Apple Computer
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This is a brochure for the original 1984 Apple Macintosh. This layout is slightly different than the one posted by Jason Scott , so I'm uploading it as well.
Topics: Apple, Macintosh, Computer, 1984
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Jun 6, 2019 Oregon Software
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This is issues 3, 6, 7, and 9-12 of the Oregon Software Technical Newsletter (originally called Pascal Newsletter ). These issues are from 1981 through 1987. Oregon Software was a spinoff from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. It started in the late '70s, selling Pascal compilers for the DEC PDP-11, VAX, 68000 and other computers. The company folded around 1991, due to the fading popularity of the Pascal language and the difficulty of competing with free offerings from the GNU project....
Topics: Oregon Software, Pascal, Pascal-2, PDP-11, VAX, Newsletter
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Jun 5, 2019 Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut fur Informatik, Unversity Tubingen
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This book is a result of the lectures and discussions during the conference "Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling", organized by the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut fur Informatik, Unversity Tubingen, taking place from October 3 to October 7, 1988
Topics: CAD, CAGD, Geometric Modelling, Geometry
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Jun 2, 2019 ASIFA-SF
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This is the newsletter for the San Francisco chapter of ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association. This has the September 2000 issue, and issues running from September 2001 through June 2002 (except the February 2002 issue).
Topics: ASIFA, ASIFA-SF, Animation, Film
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Jun 2, 2019 Oregon Minicomputer Software Inc.
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In the late 1970s, Oregon Minicomputer Software Inc. (a spinoff from the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry - OMSI) created and sold a Pascal compiler for the PDP-11. This is the original flyer and price list for the compiler. List of developer bios is also included. Later known as Oregon Software, the company went under in 1991.
Topics: Pascal compiler, PDP-11, Oregon Software, OMSI
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Jun 2, 2019 Apollo Computer
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This is one of the first brochures for Apollo Computer, a workstation vendor in the early 1980s. They were acquired by Hewlett Packard in 1989. The November 1981 price list is also included.
Topics: Apollo Computer, DOMAIN, Workstation
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Jun 2, 2019 Apollo Computer
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This is one of the early brochures for Apollo Computer, a workstation vendor in the early 1980's. It features a description of their "DOMAIN" system architecture.
Topics: Apollo Computer, DOMAIN, workstations
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Jun 2, 2019 Silma Incorporated
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Silma was a software company for robotics and manufacturing simulation founded in 1983, and acquired by Adept corp. in 1995. These are brochures for some of their early products, Visicam & RoboCam.
Topics: Silma, Visicam, Robocam, SilSim, SilSpec, robotics
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May 27, 2019 Apple Computer
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If you worked as a software engineer at Apple Computer (or Taligent, a spin-off company) between 1988 - 1992, there's some chance your name may be on these charts. These reflected the people behind Apple's system software efforts of that era, including Mac OS System 7 and the ill-fated Pink project (which later became Taligent).
Topics: Apple, System software, System 7, Org charts, Taligent, Pink Project
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May 25, 2019 Ishi Press
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A catalog of puzzles sold by Ishi Press in the 1990s.
Topics: Puzzle, Burr puzzle, Ishi Press